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<< Our Photo Pages >> Heliopolis - Ancient Village or Settlement in Egypt in Lower Egypt (North)

Submitted by AlexHunger on Monday, 27 March 2006  Page Views: 11329

Multi-periodSite Name: Heliopolis Alternative Name: Ain Shams, Al-Matariyyah, Mataria, Iunu
Country: Egypt
NOTE: This site is 1.787 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Lower Egypt (North) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Cairo  Nearest Village: Mataria
Latitude: 30.129348N  Longitude: 31.307475E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1Completely destroyed
5 Ambience:
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1Awful
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5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Heliopolis Senusert I Obelisk
Heliopolis Senusert I Obelisk submitted by AlexHunger : Senusert I Obelisk at Mataria in the East of Cairo. The obelisk belonged to the On sun temple, otherwise know as Heliopolis to the Greeks and Romans. There are other artifacts and statues in the little park which attest to the existance of the once major temple. This site is not in most of the tourist guides to Egypt or Cairo. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Lower Egypt (North)

One of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt, the capital of the 13th Lower Egyptian nome.
Today it is mostly destroyed; its temples and other buildings were used for the construction of medieval Cairo.

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Heliopolis submitted by durhamnature : Old photo from "From Cyprus to Zanzibar" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

Heliopolis
Heliopolis submitted by karolus : Nobody around, Sept 2020 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Heliopolis submitted by durhamnature : Old painting from "Holy Land...." via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

Heliopolis
Heliopolis submitted by durhamnature : Obelisk, from "History of Ancient Egypt" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

Heliopolis Ramses II Obelisk
Heliopolis Ramses II Obelisk submitted by AlexHunger : Site in Rome: Obelisk from the Temple of Ra in Heliopolis made under the reign of Ramses II. It was moved in antiquity to the Temple of Isis in Rome. It is now in the Piazza della Rotonda in front of the Pantheon.

Heliopolis Seti I Piazza del Popolo Obelisk
Heliopolis Seti I Piazza del Popolo Obelisk submitted by AlexHunger : Site in Rome: Obelisk from the temple of Heliopolis made under the reign of Seti I . It was brought to Rome by Augustus in 10 BCE and erected on the spina of the Circus Maximus. It is now in the Piazza del Popolo.

Heliopolis Ramesses II Termini Obelisk
Heliopolis Ramesses II Termini Obelisk submitted by AlexHunger : Site in Rome: Obelisk from the Heliopolis templemade under the reign of Ramesses II. It was moved to the Temple of Isis in Rome. It is now in a square near the Termini Train station.

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New stone inscription shows list of offerings to ancient gods by davidmorgan on Sunday, 07 October 2012
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During construction work carried out by the Ministry of Endowments at the Al-Khamis market area, which is next to the archaeological site of Matariya in northern Cairo, workers stumbled upon a part of an ancient Egyptian stele.

Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim explained that the newly-discovered stone artefact is the right section of a New Kingdom stele, on which is displayed a complete, illustrated list of various offerings to ancient Egyptian deities. A collection of geese, vegetables, fruits, bread, and cattle is depicted.

Lotus flowers are also shown, as well as religious worship poetry in hieroglyphic form.

Although the cartouche of the owner or the reign when it was engraved has not yet been identified on the stele, Ibrahim said that it would reveal more of the history of this mysterious area, which includes monuments from the early pharaonic to the Ptolemaic era.

Mohamed El-Beyali, head of the ancient Egyptian department at the Ministry of State for Antiquities, said that initial studies on the stele show that it can be dated to the late 18th or the beginning of the 19th dynasty.

He added that Matariya is a very important archaeological site, as it was a centre for the worship of the sun god Aten and it was the capital city of north Egypt. The site includes an obelisk of Senousert I, a collection of ancient Egyptian and Ptolemaic tombs, and the remains of one of the oldest universities ever. A collection of columns from the time of Ramses II has also been found.

All construction work has now been put on hold in order to excavate the area, to reveal more of its heritage.

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/51983/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/New-stone-inscription-shows-list-of-offerings-to-a.aspx

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